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2010-10-13 , 16:35
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Originally Posted by efekt View Post
Well, I went to the guy who sold me the new battery, and replaced it with an almost fully charged new battery, and now the device is working AND charging the battery as usual
BatteryGraph & HeathCheck both says charging at ~650mAh... This behavior is like a riddle to me... I uninstalled the power-kernel, don't wanna mess with it for now, and also bought a separate universal battery charger.

Is it possible that my N900 "killed" two batteries beyond the point of being able to recharge? is there any "point" like that?


You know what - I never even thought of this option... Could that be a virus, that prevents the phone from recharging? I thought the N900's power consumption driver is closed by Nokia...
Hmm, I don't think it's a virus.
My N900 has been a pain in the-charging-*** since day 1.
50% of the times I plug it to AC/Car charger it won't recognize it.
USB works all the time.
It killed 3 chargers.
1. Original 110V from USA
2. Original 220V bought in Israel for Nokia with 1mAH or something like that
3. Some car charger unbranded.

Anyway, I'll be happy to assist in anyway.

Cheers,
Eitam.
PS, saw your PM, just answered.
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2010-10-13 , 16:42
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#22
Originally Posted by efekt View Post
Well, I went to the guy who sold me the new battery, and replaced it with an almost fully charged new battery, and now the device is working AND charging the battery as usual
BatteryGraph & HeathCheck both says charging at ~650mAh... This behavior is like a riddle to me... I uninstalled the power-kernel, don't wanna mess with it for now, and also bought a separate universal battery charger.

Is it possible that my N900 "killed" two batteries beyond the point of being able to recharge? is there any "point" like that?


You know what - I never even thought of this option... Could that be a virus, that prevents the phone from recharging? I thought the N900's power consumption driver is closed by Nokia...
Hmm, I don't think it's a virus.
My N900 has been a pain in the-charging-*** since day 1.
50% of the times I plug it to AC/Car charger it won't recognize it.
USB works all the time.
It killed 3 chargers.
1. Original 110V from USA
2. Original 220V bought in Israel for Nokia with 1mAH or something like that
3. Some car charger unbranded.

Anyway, I'll be happy to assist in anyway.

Cheers,
Eitam.
PS, saw your PM, just answered.
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2010-10-13 , 17:29
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#23
Thanks Eitam

Anyhows, fiddled around some more and tried 'lshal -m' again, and came to realize that the phone is not charging AGAIN!
Its just "pretending" to charge but it doesn't... I still have a little less than 40% battery left, I'll back up everything and flash the device...

Hope that'll do the job.
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2010-10-13 , 17:52
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#24
Originally Posted by efekt View Post
Well, I went to the guy who sold me the new battery, and replaced it with an almost fully charged new battery, and now the device is working AND charging the battery as usual
BatteryGraph & HeathCheck both says charging at ~650mAh... This behavior is like a riddle to me... I uninstalled the power-kernel, don't wanna mess with it for now, and also bought a separate universal battery charger.

Is it possible that my N900 "killed" two batteries beyond the point of being able to recharge? is there any "point" like that?


You know what - I never even thought of this option... Could that be a virus, that prevents the phone from recharging? I thought the N900's power consumption driver is closed by Nokia...
I don't think it's a virus, and I don't think it has anything to do with the power kernel. I don't have any problem charging with my external charger, which I think is a better way to charge anyway.
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2010-10-13 , 21:07
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
I don't think it's a virus, and I don't think it has anything to do with the power kernel. I don't have any problem charging with my external charger, which I think is a better way to charge anyway.
Looks like you're right - the problem in my device seems to be much more complicated.
I flashed FIASCO and eMMC - practically restarted my device as if it was just bought from the store - and I'm still having the same problem.
The device seems to "charge" the battery, but in fact it doesn't - when connected to the charger, it charges almost enough to keep the device running, so in the long run the battery will run out eventually.
It looks like my N900 'forgot' how to charge batteries.

I have no idea what to do next - I'll probably take it to get fixed somewhere, but what could be the problem?! when connected to the charger/pc usb cable, the connection is recognized, the charging sequence starts but nothing really gets to the battery...
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2010-10-13 , 21:59
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#26
Well at least you have proved that it is now a hardware issue, with the "lshal -m" command you can prove the problem exists to a service centre. Hopefully it will be easy for you to get it fixed.

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2010-10-13 , 22:13
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Thanks JonWW, but I'm afraid there are no Nokia service centers around me which can fix my N900, as its not officially imported to Israel.
I bought mine from the US, and I don't feel like sending it away for so long - so I'll have to try and find a good cell-phones lab which also have spare parts and diagnostic equipment for the N900...

Ah well, this isn't going to be easy - so if anyone who reads this knows of a good service lab like this in Israel, you're more than welcome to tell me about it...
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2010-10-14 , 08:20
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#28
I have the same problem, every time i charge my phone i noticed in conky that the cpu would stay at 500mhz, but would go up to 700mhz when needed, but never ever go below 500mhz when the charger was connected...
And this off-course doesn't help charging when the cpu drains more power than when it's running at 0mhz - 125mhz
 
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2010-10-14 , 08:32
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#29
just buy an external charger man.
dr frost, the cpu DOES go to 0, obviously inbetween conky updates so you're not going to see it happen. and 125, 250 might be disabled, go read some of the overclocking threads.
 
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2010-10-14 , 08:34
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Originally Posted by dr_frost_dk View Post
I have the same problem, every time i charge my phone i noticed in conky that the cpu would stay at 500mhz, but would go up to 700mhz when needed, but never ever go below 500mhz when the charger was connected...
And this off-course doesn't help charging when the cpu drains more power than when it's running at 0mhz - 125mhz
But does your battery charge at all?

Originally Posted by Creamy Goodness View Post
just buy an external charger man.
Yea, that what I was thinking - now that I have 2 batteries this shouldn't be such a problem - but still its rather inconvenient and I'd rather have my phone fixed...
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